Word: alaskan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...because there is ice in Juneau Harbor some months of the year Pan American will use land planes instead of their big Clippers" [TIME, Aug. 15]. Juneau and all other Alaskan seaports are free of ice and open to navigation the year round, except Nome, on Bering Sea, which is open about five months. Juneau, like Chicago, gets its ice from electric refrigeration...
Spawn of the North (Paramount), a sprawling $1,100,000 Western of the North, describes how Henry Fonda, as law & order, drove Akim Tamiroff, as Russian piracy, out of the Alaskan salmon runs in the early 1900s. Whenever Akim Tamiroff's blackhearted Russians were surprised poaching somebody else's fish trap, they were lynched. When Akim Tamiroff's insults became too much for a man to bear, Henry Fonda got into his fishing boat, went out on the bay looking for Akim with a harpoon gun. When Henry's faithful friend George Raft decided to immolate...
Polar Bears?" U. S. pundits-including the State Department-solemnly noted that President Roosevelt had "extended the Monroe Doctrine to include Canada" -overlooking the facts that: 1) President Monroe's famed message to Congress in 1823 was specifically occasioned by conversations with Imperial Russia over its Alaskan and Pacific Coast colonies: 2) referred to "the American Continents...
There are almost no roads in Alaska, few railroads. Alaskan transportation has gone from dog sleds to planes in one jump...
...Woodstock, N. Y., the second of seven successive shows featured the Alaskan paintings, rich in reds and greens and snow whites, of Marianne Appel...